ATI Radeon 8500 Question.
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Ive read several reviews on the 8500LE and they all said that all you have to do is overclock it a little and you'll have the full 8500. Newegg.com has the 8500LE 128MB for $99 and it should have about the same performance as the G4 4200 if you use the new Catalyst drivers.
iss
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there has been strong enough demand for the 8500 card that ATI is allowing its partners to rerelase the card under the Radeon 9100 label. newEgg has them they are marketed under the sapphire brand. and even though it is a previous generation chipset it is still a more powerful card than the 9000 hence the designation 9100. I think it is about 99.00.
Vehementi
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Originally posted by Vehementi
I'm thinking of doing that with my 8500LE. Might as well
Which I did soon after posting. If it didn't work, I wouldn't be writing this post
Gigabyte manufactures 3 versions of the 8500, the 64MB 8500LE (mine), the 64MB 8500 Pro (mine now!
) and the 128MB 8500 Pro. I just took the BIOS from the 64MB 8500 Pro and flashed my 8500LE's...works flawlessly.The only drawback is the high-risk flashing and the somewhat dropped overclocking potential. Default clocks before were 250/250, now they're 275/275. Runs stable as a mountain.
other than pricewatch.com, www.mwave.com has the lowest prices for computer products
they have gigabyte cards
they have gigabyte cards
young&wild
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I think you better off with Gigabyte or Hercules versions of ATI cards have more cooling...which is better for some overclocking and if you in the flashing thing like what Veh did!
Vehementi
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Yeah y&w, my Gigabyte card came with a huge custom Thermaltake heatsink; which is overkill considering it's just was an 8500LE. The fan was too small and noisy so I ripped it out and slapped a 70mm on it, and it's perfectly quiet
My video card still runs a little hot thought, like 40C for the core and 38C for the memory
Sure beats the wimpy little ATi HSF though...
My video card still runs a little hot thought, like 40C for the core and 38C for the memory
Sure beats the wimpy little ATi HSF though...
Vehementi
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Although it cannot beat the FX Flow, NVIDIA's cooling solution for the Geforce FX:
NVIDIA's FX Flow cooling technology that looks to be a combination of ABIT's OTES and eVGA's ACS2 technology, although NVIDIA did not license it from either of the aforementioned companies.
NVIDIA's FX Flow technology supports a wide range of speed levels to run the fan at; at its loudest the fan is no louder than a noisy Ti 4600.
Heh, nice. The lower speed version, probably the "MX", will only take up one expansion slot.
NVIDIA's FX Flow cooling technology that looks to be a combination of ABIT's OTES and eVGA's ACS2 technology, although NVIDIA did not license it from either of the aforementioned companies.
NVIDIA's FX Flow technology supports a wide range of speed levels to run the fan at; at its loudest the fan is no louder than a noisy Ti 4600.
Heh, nice. The lower speed version, probably the "MX", will only take up one expansion slot.
You got any valid reason for that opinion, Like Q3 or U2 frame
rates or some other realworld stats?
This is not a loaded question... I just cant find any.
It's always an overclocked something against some other
"faster" whatsit so the figures don't end up meaning a whole
lot.
I ended up using the ABIT version of this card in my rig.... and
figured it was pretty good for the money.
Th3M1ghtyD8
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The 9000 is just a re-designed cost reduced 8500 core, and so runs slightly slower than a real 8500, but probably the same speed as an 8500LE.
PreservedSwine
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Actully, it's not missing anything, just lower clocks than a "retail" R8500.
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